Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-30
M T. DICA l. IN III A l. A II i q N
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

OUR TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
~ of the respiratory passages consists in
| the employment of Medical Inhalation for
| its direct effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such hy-
eienic measures and administering sucl
medicines by the stomach as will most
| fectually purify the blood. give tonJ TO
the nervous, system. and Daiid up ana
| other words, we employ combiA>d q local
and general treatment.
What is MEDICAL Inhalati Before
stating briefly what Med;G inhalation
is, we propose, in as few ~ DIS as possible,
to state clearly what 1t is at.
| Medical Inhalation Is not cure-all,
nostrum, or panace.. 1t is not speclfc
medicine, or advs tised to cure any or all
| the ills that fiesh heir to, an intended to
fill the pockets its proprietors It Is not
| a talisman, Tl'te possession lnsures nealtn
to its poss.seor without the Intervention OF
sense or dgment. Medical Inhalation Is
none of these things.
Medical Inhalation is simply aud solely
meth ID of taking medicines by fnhallng or
breathing them into the lungs instead OF
| swallowing them into the stomach. BY In.
ha!ation, the proper medicines are applied
| directly to the seat of the disease, In the
nose, throat or lungs; and 1t is clear to
every reasoning person how peculiarly ap;
plicable Inhalation is in the disorders OF
| the organs named. If you have scalded or
| burned the surface of the body, or wounded
| any limb or member, you 40 not swailow
the remedy intended to heal the disor-
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you apply
| II directly to the seat of the wound or in
jury. Why then. when suffering from G.
| tarfh h of the nasal pas ksages or throat, or an
fiicted with liberation of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
l Ifop f, hn Saufa af ha
disease, but It applies the remedy in the
gaseous or vaporous form, In which form,
as is we'll known, medicines act most power
fully How much greater, ior example, rs
| the effect of drachm of chloroform, when
| inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quantity when swallowed into the stomach:
| The same Is true of chlorine, OF iodine, and
of many other substances BY lnnalaton
| the medicine Is not poured into the stomach
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of a malady which may be
mainly or entirely a local one; but by this
rectly to the diseased organ. Who, after
| studyil z the anotomy of the lungs. can
doubtthat Inflammation and liberation OF
| the air-tubes and air-cells. the direct appll-
cation of the healing medicine by 1nhala,
ton TO the diseased parts, is the correct ana
rational method of treatment Who. on
the other hand, can be SO irrational as to
believe that the proper ana olIect way 10
passages in this case. is by the way OF the
stomach? Physiology teaches us that the
membrane. or skin, lining the airpassages
slightly modified form of the same structure
| as that which covers the external surface
| of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment he proper and necessary Tor lnnam-
nations, concessions and ulcerations OF the
one and not be equally SO in the case OF the
other? ..
diseases of the nose. throat ana lupgs, de-
l los, oil
| true scientific treatment OF these diseases is
| that treatment which combines the local
effects of medical inhalation with the CON
| sttutionsl effects Of systematic remeoies'
given in the usual way by the stomach
One or both methods must be adopted as
| the circumstances demand, ana such rene
| dies must be employed as the experience
and judgment of the physician have proved
| to be proper in each particular case.
Medical AdvOC ates OF In inhalation.
| Physicians who were educated twenty
| years ago or more, and VINO nave not kept
up with the times iu the advance in medi-
| cal science, have very little ldea OF the great
| importance all leading writers now give 10
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pull
monary diseases. To such an extent IL this
| true that no patient should intrust his case
| to auy physician who is not well prepared
and thoroughly equipped with everything
necessary for the administering OF the
proper remedies by the method OF inhala-
| The numerous cures effected by inhala-
lation in cases seemingly past all help, and
| the uniform success attending lts us3 III
diseases of the respiratory organs, renders
| it obligatory on every honest physician 70
at once apply himself to gain practical
knowledge Of the Inhalation, or, II that is
not possible, he is at least DOuuu W oeciiHei
| to treat such cases.
| Among The most eminent physicians of
the age VIII are fully awakened to the value
of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
The celebrated DIR. Burden .Saun1erson; /;
DR.. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy OF
Medicine; DR.. Frederick Langhaus, OF Ber-
linz Drs. Klebs and Tommasi-Crunen; oir
Dr. Eichler, DIR. Cameron. DR.. Gurdon Buck'
Prof. Albert Lehert, the celebrated Dr.
Hughlings Jackson. the venerable Dr. Rob
ert Dickinson: Prof, Thierfelder. spencer
Drs. fritsch and Hitaig. DR.. Fotherglll, Dr.
Richard Thompson, DR.. r. Carpenter,
Drs. Anstie. Ball, Fuller, LanHcers;au9' Hal.;l.az'
Krauss Hug51enie I5 aeIler, aehers or'n'
With scarcely single exception every
medical authority of eminenee recognizes
the wonderful potency of this new methGd,
are certain to be thoroughly educated
therein. At present it is only few physi-
clans here aud there who have made dis
eases of Respiration" life study th.t are
resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
| of these diseases.
The Durability Of Consumption.
For five years the celebrated DR.. l. II
Bennet waa pathologist to the X yal In.
hrmary OF Edinburgh, and in his great
work on Consumption he makes the fol-
lowing statement:
"Duripg this period l made upwards oil
20Oo post-mOrtem examinations OF persons
dying from various diseases, and l was
cor s,antly meeting with cases in which
found cavities in the lungs from consump
ton, which had evidently healed up OF
cicatrized years before the death of the
subject. Nature did not seem to have been
successful in restoring the wasted lung
substance. but the cavities were dried up
| the progress of the disease are sted, aud
the subject lived for years, with diminish ed
lung power 1t il true, but otherwise In good
, health"